Sunflower Finds August 16

I've found you just can't take too many sunflower photos. And you can't have too many Lightroom presets. (well maybe you can, I'm getting close.)
Linking up With Kim for Friday Finds
and Nancy for Random Five Friday .

My own preset. Jamal Texture by Kim

My own preset.

 Lightroom Preset, Adobe Lightroom Presets Sally Mann #1

  Lightroom Preset, Adobe Lightroom Presets The Baby Collection #9 without the border.

Lightroom Preset, Adobe Lightroom Presets Sally Mann #3

Right now they have a 50% offer on their presets with the code summer50.

5 Facts about Sunflowers:

1. They grow in the ditch around here among the beer cans.

2. They can be seen with the wheat if you can even find a wheat field these days.

3. They love to hang out with the food.

4. They'll stay up all night to have a photograph taken with the full moon.

5. They are happy to share the limelight with other photographs.

Good grief, I have 638 photos in Lightroom tagged 'sunflowers'. I wonder if I may have missed any.

Have a fabulous and sunny weekend!

12 Days of Christmas -Day 5

It's Five on Friday and what do you know? It's coordinating perfectly with Day 5. Come join the party and ink up here.
I actually have two day 5s because I liked them both too much too eliminate one. My lovely nieces a couple years ago.

It's Me, Five Fact Friday

Linking up with 5 Fact Friday at Reflection of You Blog. as soon as they post a new link.
I've saved the best for last, so if this bores you, scroll down.

1.  I treated my self to a brand new iPad this month. So many things I want to do with it…photo-wise.
2.  I've recently become hooked on iphoneography because of the discovery of some amazing apps that my new online friends use. If you see that I'm missing some important ones, let me know. (As you can see I haven't even opened Photoshop Touch yet.)

3. Two things I love rolled into one. Cameras and Coke. Altho the Coke is now on the naughty list I may only have one once a week. ( I don't know who made this, but it's quite clever)

4.  I'm always finding money in my pockets when I least expect. Usually it's a $20, but today I guess I'm poorer. Must be all those apps I bought.

5.  This year I have gotten much braver about self-portraits. I used a wireless remote and actually managed to get most of my body in the frame most of the time. I headed out looking for Fall color and finally found 2 trees that qualified. I only cropped a few so you could see what was actually shot but had a fun time processing in Lightroom. Shots toward the end were taken on my ipad and edited in Camera+. I even took a screen shot of one and threw that in. Be sure your eyes are awake because you have to watch fast. It's done in time-lapse video style that I've wanted to do ever since seeing this gals work, Petra Cross Compiled in iMovie.


Self shootLG from Roxi Hardegree on Vimeo.
Linking up with 5 Fact Friday

Happy Shooting!

5 Facts 10-12-12

5 Fact Friday is going on at Reflection of You Blog. Join us if you dare.
I got a new car this year and it's taking forever to locate and figure out the darn windshield wipers. (It NEVER rains here.) You would think I am getting old or something! We had a good bit of rain for several days a few weeks ago and I thought I had it down good, but no.... today it was raining and once again I fumbled around trying to avoid turning on the back one. Of course it didn't help that I was trying to take a photo with my phone of the windshield at the time. See photo 3. Frames available from Coppercurls Designs. All photos taken of my phone or iPad. Apps used, Camera Plus, Pic Grunger, Instagram.